ESV Psalm 129

1 They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth A Song of Ascents. "Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth"- let Israel now say-

2 "Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

3 The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows."

4 The Lord is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.

5 May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward!

6 Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

7 with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms,

8 nor do those who pass by say, "The blessing of the Lord be upon you! We bless you in the name of the Lord!"